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First all-electric airline could soar with converted old seaplanes

Green Car Reports

By land, by sea, and by air, battery power is expanding to drive all kinds of transportation. It's harder to loft several thousand pounds of batteries into the air, to make them last potentially an hour or more. And if they run out of juice, pilots can't just pull over and call for a tow.

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Electric Car Range Anxiety Evaporates After Three Months

Green Car Reports

“Range anxiety” for pure battery-powered electric car owners wears off quickly as a driver begins to understand the capabilities and charging patterns of their car, according to a new study by the Technology Strategy Board.

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Fully-electric New Fiat 500 With Power-Saving Mode So Owners Won’t Need to Worry about Running Out of Juice

EV Obssesion

UK orders for New 500 now open, with deliveries due this spring New 500 priced from £19,995* OTR The all-electric New 500 ensures drivers can put fears of range anxiety to the back of their minds thanks to new technology which conserves the vehicle’s battery power, reducing its overall consumption. In a style similar to […].

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. If too much or too little electricity is present in the power grid, the network can suddenly become unbalanced.

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. hoku earthquake , tsunami and nuclear power plant accident at Fukushima.

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Think the plug-in Ford Ranger PHEV isn’t capable enough? I just drove one up an active volcano in Iceland!

EV Central

The plug-in Ford managed the task using battery power alone, and this being Iceland, said battery was charged using hydro and geothermal power. The latter is in stark evidence as we drive alongside Hengill’s vast steam-spouting geothermal power station on this moonscape-like lava plateau. Here’s the thing.

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Stuff We Use: Electric Ratchets

The Truth About Cars

Electric ratchets have become a great deal more common in DIY toolboxes over the last few years, thanks in no small part to huge advancements in battery technology. Of course, it is much better and safer to use the latter if you can, lest a poor-quality socket shatter itself to smithereens under the duress of a power tool.

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